How Trump’s Horrific Wine Became the Ultimate Metaphor for His Presidency

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Trump claimed Friday that “American wines are better than French wines”—but his own wine was described in 2017 as tasting like “Welch's grape jelly with alcohol”

to drink,” the server said, slipping two glasses of deep-ruby-red wine in front of me and my guest. My guest was a nationally known wine expert. The server wanted to apologize for the wines I had made my guest taste for the previous 90 minutes, which the server had brought to the table with mystified, foot-dragging reluctance.

In using the family winery to deflect questions about white supremacy after the deadly riots, the president did manage to plug yet another Trump product. A surprised nation wondered: How’s the wine?Thus my invitation to the visiting wine expert, who is known for his bloodhound nose and encyclopedic knowledge of the world’s wines, and who actuallyVirginia wines.

The Trump version of Chardonnay? “Oaked up,” my friend said. “Sweet. Too much residual sugar. Harvested too ripe. Flabby. Really clumsy. Goes with the cuisine.” Expensive too: $68 a bottle at the restaurant for the 2015, $22 on the Web site for the 2016. The real reason Trump helped out his old friend was the chance to buy the estate for a predatory price, so laughably low that the bank which had seized the house kept refusing his offers. So he went around them, buying 217 acres that surrounded the mansion—in effect, the front lawn—from the trustees for Kluge’s adopted son; then the 776-acre vineyard for $6.2 million, plus $1.7 million in equipment and leftover wine; then the mansion itself, for $6.5 million.

 

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Everything and anything he touches turns to shit.

TooFred Perhaps when he was heard saying that he was actually responding to the question, could you give us an example of fake news Mr President

Wow! You are really covering some eye opening stuff. How’s your circulation?

Well this is a man who eats well done steak with ketchup

WSH IL EST OUF LUI VA TE SOIGNER

I'm sure he was being condescending.

What does he know, if he doesn't drink

What else would you expect from a guy who eats well done steak slathered with ketchup?

Well, he’s American and can certainly wine.

You guys are getting desperate. That’s all you’ve got?

amazing he knows that considering he doesn’t drink

Exactly. Better than French wine! 🙃

😂 😂 😂 No

From him I’m surprised it tasted that good

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